Men's tennis into SCIAC championship match with wins over Caltech and Whittier

Joe Dorn and Zhenya Pereverzin (Photos by Ellen Friedlander)

May 02, 2014

Captains Joe Dorn (Jr. - Washington
D.C.) and Zhenya Pereverzin (Sr. - Clackamas,
OR) each won three matches, as #1 CMS Stags Tennis advanced to the
SCIAC championship match with 5-1 and 8-1 wins over Caltech and #23
Whittier. CMS will face#10 Pomona-Pitzer for the tournament title
on Saturday at 10 AM at Cal State Northridge.

Pereverzin partnered Daniel Morkovine (Fr. - San Carlos,
CA) at #2 doubles against Caltech, and then reunited with regular
partner Nik Marino (Jr. - San Diego,
CA) at #3 against Whittier for two doubles wins. He also earned his
twentieth singles win of the year at #6 singles against Whittier.
Dorn similarly had two doubles wins and a singles win, partnering
Warren Wood (Jr. - San Diego, CA) at
#1 doubles for their twentieth as a team. Dorn was also a
convincing 6-1, 6-2 winner at #2 singles that put the Stags up 6-0
in the afternoon match against the Poets.

Morkovine was one of three freshmen Stags to get singles wins on
Friday. He led 6-1, 4-1 in the morning match before his match was
abandoned when the dual was clinched. He provided the clinching
victory in the afternoon, a 6-2, 6-0 win at #5 for his twentieth of
the year. Glenn Hull (Brookings, OR) and
Rohan Shankar (San Jose, CA) were
straight set winners at the #4 and #6 singles positions against the
Beavers.

With the two wins, CMS improves to 25-1 overall and 9-0 in SCIAC
play.